Playing the game of poking a chad for the most conservative seeming person on the ballot must make us feel so clean and holy. But it hurts the dream of our founders who wanted us to actually live under our Constitution to the point of even dying for it should we need to.
I choose freedom. Trump isn't perfect and he doesn't fit inside the conservative box. The box, at this point, is just a distraction. Trump can free us from some of this enslavement. Even the wall alone is a step back toward our Constitution. We need a strong, fearless leader. He is risking a very cushy retirement and indeed his very life to do this for us (probably more for his grandchildren, but, yes, for US too). No other independently resourced American has stepped forward to try and save us. He's our only chance.
It's not about "who is more conservative." It's about not falling for that trick to lull us into continued serfdom.
Explain to me how I am wrong, please, because I can't see it. Why stick to a holy box of principles over freedom, over the Constitution?
Unfortunately Trump is selling his soul to the establishment. He is NOT who he is telling us he is; he is a big gov’t liberal and we’re on our way to exactly what we’ve been in the last 7+ years.
Well said. This is what I have been thinking as well.
I like what Trump is going to do with immigration, national security, the economy and trade. With out those things getting done, nothing else matters. Trump is the only candidate with the right platform to fix those issues and is not owned by big money donors.
His positions on things like Eminent Domain and his recent statements about clamping down on speech he doesn't like ought to scare the daylights out of anyone who believes in individual liberty.
Remember, this is the guy who threatened to sue an opponent for daring to play Trump's own statements in a commercial.
it's so much BIGGER than that and so it's amazing that so many otherwise smart and thoughtful people here on FR can't see it. But people come to understanding of things at different rates. Hopefully it won't be too late by the time the Cruzies figure it out.
Trump is irrelevant to this debate, he is the LEAST establisment candadate ever. Because he doesn’t need there money.
Anyone who doesn’t yet believe we are not being played like fools needs to start reading at THe Conservative Treehouse where it lays out as clear as day:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/08/09/gope-2016-road-map-to-victory-tree-house-challenge/
The puppetmasters are the GOP Elite, primarily Rience Priebus and Mitch McConnell, and the US Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donovan. They have conspired since 2008 to rig this election for their 100% bought-and-paid-for candidate, Jeb!
The only reason Jeb! doesn’t have 100 EVs right now is Donald J. Trump. Every other candidate was either planted for their own purposes or an insurgent like Cruz or Carson who they could have easily squashed.
Trump is a billionaire and about as establishment as they come. He has made a career of conning people into agreeing to various “deals”. Sometimes they work out and sometimes he goes bankrupt. But many fall for con artists. A sucker is born every minute.
Read “The Unseen Hand.”
I’m sort of of the opinion that there really isn’t a dimes worth of difference between then lot of them.
Wow. Somebody who gets it. You have escaped the Matrix.
Well met.
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He can, he might. We just don't know. Most do not go in filthy rich. The White House would be Trump's natural upgrade from real estate to global economy.
You are owned by the establishment if you consider yourself a member of the party without taking an active road. It’s not who votes. But rather who counts them.
In this country unless you are in the senior levels of the party, you are simply a pawn.